Richard A. Serrano

Writer

Richard A. Serrano was a federal law enforcement and terrorism reporter in the Los Angeles Times’ Washington, D.C., bureau. He left The Times in 2015. Serrano previously covered the Rodney King beating and riots, the Oklahoma City and Sept. 11 terror attacks, school shootings in Colorado, Virginia and Connecticut, military courts martial and the porous U.S. border with Mexico. He has written three books, the latest “Last of the Blue and Gray” about the final survivors of the Civil War.

Recent Articles

With police on heightened alert in Times Square and elsewhere around the nation, the FBI announced the arrest of a 25-year-old man in upstate New York for allegedly providing material support to Islamic State and planning to “kill innocent civilians on New Year’s Eve in the name of the terrorist...

He was an entertainment legend, a trailblazing stand-up comedian and actor who won multiple Emmys and America's hearts. He became the first African-American to star in a television drama series and later played the part of a beloved doctor, in a show named after him. When rumors of sexual misconduct...

On the eve of the statute of limitations running out on the claims of the first woman to accuse Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her, prosecutors in Pennsylvania charged the 78-year-old comedic icon with the alleged 2004 assault. The comedian and actor was charged Wednesday in Montgomery...

The FBI is constructing a detailed timeline of the still-hazy years between when Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik became self-radicalized on the Internet and when they launched the deadly attack in San Bernardino. The effort could take months, according to two federal officials, as investigators...

They had only met online — first on a matrimonial website, and then in what he called “several weeks of emailing” — when Syed Rizwan Farook first sat down with Tashfeen Malik during his pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, in October 2013. They got engaged that same day, and the couple disclosed...

Immigration officials failed to sufficiently scrutinize Tashfeen Malik's petition to enter the U.S. to get married, allowing her in with an unverified assertion from her fiance and untranslated Arabic passport stamps as the only evidence that the couple had spent time together, congressional investigators...

Enrique Marquez Jr., 24, was charged Thursday with conspiring with Syed Rizwan Farook in 2011 and 2012 to commit crimes of terrorism, as well as unlawfully purchasing two assault rifles used in the San Bernardino massacre and defrauding immigration authorities by entering into a sham marriage. ...

They were soft-spoken teenagers — next-door neighbors growing up in a suburban tract in Riverside. But the bond Syed Rizwan Farook and Enrique Marquez formed a decade ago was tight. They began visiting a local mosque, discussing Islamic radicalism and amassing weapons and explosives. Then, four...